Here we are, finally listing the books I've recently read. I did mention in a
Seven Quick Takes a while back about two of those books,
The Witness by Grace Livingstone Hill and
The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
So here's what I've been reading the past few weeks:
I want to read all of the Montgomery books that aren't Anne. Some of them I own, some I do not, but this is a collection of short stories published posthumously that I reread in my Montgomery quest. Like
Emily's Quest, only more read-ish and less interesting. That's a L.M.M. joke. Anyway. I haven't decided yet if I am going to include her journals in this plan.
The
Heroes of the Faith series is written for probably a middle school reading level. I was stuck at a church event and that church had a library attached to it. I was told to go ahead and borrow whatever I liked. So I did. I've always like Amy Carmichael, who was a missionary throughout Asia and helped to save a great many children, but I never knew much about her early life, nor about her stint in Japan! It's been a fast read, but helped fill in some knowledge gaps; I may go ahead and see if I can find a most advanced biography of her.
I think I knew that
The Hiding Place had a sequel, but that information had become lost in the depths of my brain over the years so when I picked this book up I was surprised and pleased all over again! The style of writing is very much like
The Hiding Place. It's strange how different this writing is, actually, to the book I mention next,
Amazing Love.
Initially it was a strong enough factor for me to wonder if, since English wasn't Corrie's first language, she had extensive editing help with this title and
The Hiding Place in a way she didn't have with other books she wrote. But then I did a little research and discovered that
Amazing Love was published in 1953 and
Tramp for the Lord in 1971, so I suppose the extra almost two decade simply produced a more finished work.
A Corrie ten Boom book I haven't read! Of course
The Hiding Place is her most well-known book, but she wrote quite a lot more than that, all with her trademark gentleness and soft humour. This one was not her best writing - it felt rushed and not particularly well edited. Also several of the stories are repeats from
Tramp For The Lord.
I started reading this and was not pulled in immediately. But I bought it because Elizabeth George is an extremely popular Christian writer, so I'm going to sit down and make a concerted effort to finish it and come up with a better opinion than 'This book is so pink'.
Books Read Aloud To The Children
The two Eleanor Estes books were our latest chapter book read alouds for the children, mainly the girls, who appreciated Jane Moffat's escapades the most.
I won't write much about
Greenglass House because it is the subject of an upcoming book review, but this mystery/suspense/fantasy fiction for middle schoolers really appealed to my 9yo and I.
And in case you think we simply pick up books and plow through them like a rat in a grain silo, here is a book I recently started with my son, read two chapters of, and discarded because neither of us liked it at all.
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